Spider Mania and a little November Stuff!

Oh. My. Gosh!!!! What a week...and it was even a 3 day weekend! Report cards, lesson planning, kids, ...too much! Whoever said weekends were for relaxing, well, they obviously were NOT teachers!

Sorry for venting, I do feel better though! SO, I did get a few things finished to share with you.

Last week we made the CUTEST spiders to go with our spider stories. The spiders are from my spider glyph/math mini unit found in my EEK! Spider Math! And the writing ideas came from my "A Unit ABout Spiders! Have look below to see how they turned out:

I created new calendar pieces for November because I am OBSESSED with Melonheadz! Check them out below...

Cute right???? I LOVE her stuff!

ALso, I pulled out one of the games from my Surfin' back to School Unit. This activity works on teen numbers and place value. 

Here is a preview:

I guess that is all I have my friends! I do have a HUGE math unit coming that aligns perfectly with Common Core AND Expressions...which is the math program we use. Look for it-coming soon! I know, I know, writing too...I just can't seem to fit it all in! I promise I will get there! Happy Halloween...I know I won't be able to get back to you until this crazy week is over! 

Spider Poem

I LOVE having students work with poems. There are so many things you can do with poems. Students can identify rhyming words, high frequency words, specific sounds learned, they can cut apart the poem and sequence it, then glue and add it to a poetry journal. Too many fun activities...how do you use poems?

Download a copy of the spider poem below:

sing to "I'm a Little Teapot" 

I have students read the poem several times. This helps build fluency, word recognition, identify high frequency words and rhyming words and what ever else you may think of. Then, I have them cut the poem apart, mix it up really good, sequence it, then glue it to another piece of paper. They can then add it to their poetry journal for future reading.